Since New York State Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver announced he wouldn’t formally resign from his post after being arrested for corruption, Albany has determined to take the matter out of his hands, the New York Times reports.
After 20 years in power, Silver is in the middle of a swift and brutal fall from grace—prosecutors allege he illegally acquired nearly four-million dollars in an ongoing scheme that included taking bribes or making arrangements to benefit New York law firms in exchange for payments he failed to report.
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